In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Life-size animals and furniture made entirely from cardboard fill this odd paper-themed restaurant.

A reconstructed farm shows what life was like in Norway 1,500 years ago.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

A cozy cafe tells the remarkable story of how one man started with a little red paperclip and wound up with an entire house.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.